Walter Liedtke, a Met curator and one of the victims of the Metro-North commuter rail accident on Tuesday, illuminates the central moral problem of human experience depicted in Rembrandt’s ‘Aristotle With a Bust of Homer.’

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The composer Harold Shapero is the rare artist whose brilliant work has received critical acclaim time and again yet he has failed to maintain widespread renown, writes Wall Street Journal drama critic Terry Teachout.